By- Suzie-Q @ 8:30 AM MST
Cheney linked to Stevens corruption trial
Think Progress- By on Aug 23rd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Newsweek reports that in a conversation “secretly tape-recorded by the FBI on June 25, 2006,” Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) “discussed ways to get a pipeline bill through the Alaska Legislature with Bill Allen, an oil-services executive accused of providing the senator with about $250,000 in undisclosed financial benefits.” Stevens promised Allen, “I’m gonna try to see if I can get some bigwigs from back here and say, ‘Look … you gotta get this done’.” Two days later, Vice President Cheney undertook the unusual move of writing a letter to the Alaska Legislature urging members to “promptly enact” a bill to build the pipeline.
Update– The Progress Report has more on the “corrupting influence of oil money.”
Where there is oil money… you will find Dick Cheney… his hands are dirty.